¡Hola! from Kirsten Büchner of Insight Evaluation Services in Fairfax, Virginia. I am a bilingual evaluation consultant working with museums and informal learning organizations in the cultural sector. As a native Spanish speaker, I get asked to participate on projects that have components designed for Spanish-speaking audiences, so part of my job includes making sure …
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Hello! I’m Siobhan Cooney, an internal evaluator at the College Board and member of the Eastern Evaluation Research Society’s Board of Directors. In this post I share information on one of my favorite features of Excel – the RAND function – and how it can be used in a random selection process. Evaluators at times …
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I am Rebecca Reznik-Zellen from the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. In my work, Open Access (OA) is an issue that I encounter regularly. But OA is becoming a familiar term to many. We hear it from publishers, funders, and research institutions about scientific and scholarly publication. For some, OA …
Hi, I’m Nora F. Murphy, a developmental evaluator deeply committed to social justice. I recently attended the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) Spring Training and Donna Mertens’ workshop on Weaving Social Justice and Evaluation Together. Stimulated by the concepts and conversations I have been reflecting on how social justice appears in my practice and had the …
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My name is Michael Quinn Patton and I am an independent evaluation consultant based in Minnesota but working worldwide. I have had the honor and privilege of participating in and presenting at every Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute since it began 20 years ago. A lot has changed in evaluation over the last two decades but …
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I’m Nidhi Khattri from the CLEAR Global Hub at the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group. As a member of the team that got CLEAR up and running, I’ve been interested in how countries make evidence-based decisions, and the role that evaluation plays in that process. Coming from a research-based background where I was more concerned …
I am Lycia Lima, the executive coordinator of the newest CLEAR center- for Brazil and Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) Africa. We’re formally joining CLEAR later this year and are planning our inauguration in October 2015. I was also one of the organizers involved in the formation of the Brazilian M&E Network – Rede Brasileira de Monitoramento e …
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I’m Urmy Shukla, Capacity Building Manager at the CLEAR South Asia Regional Center, hosted by J-PAL South Asia at the Institute for Financial Management and Research. Since our 2011 start with CLEAR we’ve developed a wide-range of activities aimed at improving monitoring and evaluation (M&E) capacity throughout the region, including 90 trainings for partners such …
We are Claudia Maldonado Trujillo and Oliver Manuel Peña, from CLEAR for Spanish-speaking Latin America. We’re located in Mexico City at CIDE (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics), a leading institution in social sciences. We’re sharing our work in advancing knowledge in evaluating climate change and how we’re addressing it through the upcoming International …
I’m Neha Sharma from the CLEAR Global Hub at the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group. A key Hub role involves facilitating learning and sharing knowledge about evaluation capacity development. So I often think about how people learn. In this context, I’ve been reading a lot of behavioral science literature, and reflecting on what makes people learn …
